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Last week I posted two blog entries describing some of the latest developments in OMNIbus Web GUI, specifically in the Event Viewer component. Today I have posted another demo video from a member of the Web GUI development team. This video shows how Web GUI administrators can control how operators interact with events which appear in the Event Viewer, via user preference settings. The latest video is available to watch here .

When you have your IBM Tivoli Network Manager (ITNM) core server and DB2 installed on the same server, AND you want to set up your ITNM server to automatically restart upon a reboot, there are a couple of configuration items that you will need to take. For this situation, we're going to set all three (tip, nco, and ncp) to autostart. We call this a single server install. As the root user, go to the NCHOME/precision/install/scripts directory. Run the create_all_control.sh script and use the "auto_only" option #source... [More]

Earlier this week I posted a blog entry to mention how the OMNIbus Web GUI development team had been working on some new features to add "workspace preferences" into Event Viewer. In today's post I am including a link to a new demo video which shows how status reporting in Event Viewer has been enhanced, as part of recent development work. An earlier set of videos I posted in April included a demo of the new "status bar" in Event Viewer. This was shown to stakeholders and, based on the feedback received, some... [More]

The OMNIbus development team have been continuing to work on enhancements to the Event Viewer component in Web GUI in recent weeks. One of the main areas of focus has been the support for "workspace preferences". These are preferences which are personal to each operator, and which provide them with control over the style, layout, and data formatting used in Event Viewer. Demonstration videos for the new workspace preferences were created as the work progressed, and these can be viewed via the Netcool Operations Insight open... [More]

A timed interval discovery is very common application for IBM Tivoli Network Manager. The discovery can be automated based on day, date, time or an interval. But can a hybrid be created? Different days and different times? As if there were more than one ActOnTimedTrigger statements in a FullDiscovery.stch file? First review how the discovery trigger works today. This statement in the $PRECISION_HOME/disco/stitchers/FullDiscovery.stch ... [More]

Part 2 of a popular video released for Tivoli Business Service Manager Setting up a TBSM Service Model – Part2 http://bit.ly/1dynRkM See more in our channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8XORAuobca1sB7nrpUdgA

Procedure to restart DB2 High Availability and Disaster Recovery HADR http://bit.ly/1GqdN5I Published on Jun 22, 2015 This is a video demonstrating the procedure to gracefully shut down DB2 HADR managed by TSAMP before maintenance activity and bring up DB2 HADR after the maintenance window.